Christopher Paolini
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?Collection: Book
No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]Collection: Sky
There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to Queen Islanzadí, and a hundred different manners in which to greet those around you, if it’s not better to just remain quiet.” “With all your customs,” Eragon risked saying, “it seems as though you’ve only made it easier to offend people.” A smile flickered across her lips. “Perhaps.Collection: Queens
Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling somethingCollection: Pain
Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to doCollection: Men
It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.Collection: Punishment
Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.Collection: Life Is Too Short
If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harmCollection: War
What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You should cook for me more often, Roran Stronghammer. Only next time, I think you should prepare several deer at once. Otherwise, I won't get a proper meal.' Roran hesitated, as if unable to decide whether her request was serious and, if so, how he could politely extricate himself froim such an unlooked -for and rather onerous obligation.Collection: Sweet
The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.Collection: Finding Happiness
You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.Collection: Helping
Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.Collection: Wise
Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.Collection: Wise
....avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!" -AngelaCollection: Looks
It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.Collection: Apology
Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.Collection: Writing
Into the sky to win or die.Collection: Winning
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.Collection: Writing
I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.Collection: Healthy
The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.Collection: Memories
The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.Collection: Fear
I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.Collection: Forgiveness
What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience lifeCollection: Surrender
He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.Collection: Creativity
In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies. Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark, Else upon your mind they'll place a mark; Do not listen to the shadows of the deep, Else they haunt you even when you sleep.Collection: Lying
The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.Collection: Inspirational
Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal endCollection: Shapes
On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.Collection: Beach
Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.Collection: Blow
The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she said, I am sore and tired, and Eragon is doing a poor job of explaining himself. We have better things to do than stand around yammering like jackdaws, no? ... Good now listen to me. It was reflected Eragon, hard to argue with a dragon.Collection: Jobs
Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.Collection: Warrior
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.Collection: Book
You cannot miss what you have never had.Collection: Missing
Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -RoranCollection: Lying
Pain is pain. It needs no description.Collection: Pain
When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.Collection: Hurt
Then, as they stood there, struggling back and forth without avail, Eragon said in a low fierce voice, "I...see...you." A bright spark appeared in Arya's eyes, then vanished just as quickly.Collection: Struggle
Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your belief and others will listen." he continued at a slower pace, " of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. thats your most powerfull too to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. that is all i have to say"Garrow to Roran p 64Collection: Revenge
Better to die than to live in fear.Collection: Dies
We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)Collection: Knowing
What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.Collection: Fate
A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.Collection: Men
If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry! - Angela to EragonCollection: Coward
Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.Collection: Care
Wind howled throught the night, carrying the scent that would change the world.Collection: Night
I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.Collection: Bibliophiles
What a strange expression said the herbalist who would compare themselves to chopped liver in the first place? If you have to to choose an organ why not pick a gallbladder or a thymus gland instead? Much more interesting than a liver. Or what about chopped t-Collection: Expression
If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and EragonCollection: Love You
That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]Collection: Names